Bug located in plcint, pldisp, plnsol, plesol, plorb and plvect

[clatapie]

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🔍 Description of the bug

The previous functions need to be defined in another way as nothing is displayed for now.

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mapdl = launch_mapdl()

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[mikerife]

Hi @clatapie I'd not consider this a bug as those plot commands need to be preceeded by a "/show" command to redirect the plots from the terminal (which does not exist) to a file type. Mike

[clatapie]

Hi @mikerife
Thank you for your prompt feedback! I didn't about that but it is exactly what I was looking for.
I will use it.

[germa89]

Hi @clatapie I'd not consider this a bug as those plot commands need to be preceeded by a "/show" command to redirect the plots from the terminal (which does not exist) to a file type. Mike

I wonder if we should made PyMAPDL automatically issue /SHOW. We could have something like a default image type:

mapdl.default_image_file = "PNG"
mapdl._use_vtk=False # we should also do a property `mapdl.use_vtk`

mapdl.pldisp()

what do you think @mikerife , will it be (sort of) consistent (convenient?) with MAPDL users?

[mikerife]

@germa89 @clatapie I think this might be a hard programming task as MAPDL does not seem to have a way to get the status of the display (neither *get nor /pstatus). So I guess you will need to track the status of any prior /show somehow....??? I do think defaulting to png would be convinient.

[germa89]

@germa89 @clatapie I think this might be a hard programming task as MAPDL does not seem to have a way to get the status of the display (neither *get nor /pstatus). So I guess you will need to track the status of any prior /show somehow....??? I do think defaulting to png would be convinient.

We could track it ... as everything pass by mapdl.run. I will draft a PR soon.